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URGENTE! 🚨 ARCA te DEBE PLATA, reclamala!

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Finance

Overview (Argentina tax / refunds)

This video focuses on legal tax optimization and reclaiming money via ARCA/AFIP-related processes in Argentina. It is not primarily about investing markets.

The subtitles include multiple explicit cautions/disclaimers about responsibility and emphasize consulting an accountant.

Disclaimers / disclosures mentioned

  • Not financial advice / not a recommendation.
  • The presenter states it is not accounting advice and that the speaker is not an accountant.
  • Recommendation: consult an accountant before making decisions.

Key themes: mistakes and fixes

Mistake #1 (Fix): Not declaring your CBU in ARCA (long B / “CBU”)

What to do (as described):

  1. Go to ARCA.
  2. Search for “CBU” → choose CBU declaration.
  3. Add a new CBU and register it for refunds so ARCA can pay you.
  4. Upload your CBU.

Important clarification:

  • “CBU” with a long B vs short B: most virtual wallets give the short B version, while banks provide the correct one.
  • Example mentioned: Revrebank (and that there may be more).

Why it matters: If you don’t provide the correct destination CBU, ARCA may not refund amounts owed.

Mistake #2 (Fix): Avoiding Personal Assets tax where possible

How it’s described:

  • Personal Assets is calculated on balances as of December 31 (a “snapshot”).

Strategy described:

  • If an asset is taxed (counts in the Personal Assets base), it can increase tax.
  • If an asset is exempt, moving funds into it (before the end-of-year date) can reduce tax.

Example mechanism (as stated):

  • Sell CDRs and place proceeds into a fixed-term deposit (“deposito a plazo fijo”), described as exempt, until after year-end.
  • The goal is a lower end-of-year balance for the Personal Assets calculation.

Additional claim (mentioned as clarification):

  • The subtitles state that selling CDRs this way may avoid income tax (described as a separate part of the video, but included here as clarification).

Threshold / timeline details

  • The tax triggers only if you exceed a minimum non-taxable amount.
  • The effective tax rate is estimated as roughly 0.5% to 1% (per the subtitle description).
  • Example given:
    • Minimum non-taxable amount for 2025 end: ~385 million ARS (“last year”).
    • Example: with 100,000,000 ARS, tax example uses 1% → 1 million ARS.
    • If a fixed deposit is 2,000,000 ARS, it is subtracted from the threshold calc: 385M − 2M = 383M → tax owed.
  • The video states the minimum for 2026 is not yet known.

Instruments explicitly mentioned here:

  • CDRs
  • CDAs
  • Fixed-term deposits / “depositos a plazo fijo”
  • CDR sale timing example: sell on Dec 20, keep funds in the deposit until Jan 20 next year.

Mistake #3 (Fix): How “quebranto” (tax loss offset) works for Income Tax

Income Tax framing (as described):

  • Income tax can be up to about a third of earnings (“up to a third or a little more”).

Quebranto concept (loss carryforward):

  • Losses (example given: from cryptocurrencies) can offset later gains.
  • Carryforward can last up to 5 years.
  • Rule mentioned: ARCA states some losses can only offset gains from the same activity, not unrelated activities.

Caution about matching instruments to taxes:

  • Example logic: if CDRs do not pay capital gains tax, then declaring CDR losses may be less useful if you can’t use them against taxable capital gains.

Assets / categories mentioned under Income Tax

  • Cryptocurrencies (losses and offsets; “derivatives” mentioned in a technical sense)
  • Foreign shares / foreign broker accounts:
    • If investing via a foreign broker, profits are said to be taxed—even if the stock has an Argentine equivalent (example: Coca-Cola).
  • Real estate is also referenced as affecting taxability.
  • Subtitles include: “None of the EDRs pay profits” (meaning is unclear due to auto-subtitles, but it suggests a distinction between EDRs vs foreign-broker activity).

Administrative steps mentioned to preserve losses

To preserve losses, the investor must:

  • Be registered for Income Tax
  • Submit sworn statements for the year of the loss

Mistake #4 (Fix): Paying much less under Monotributo (~89% saving claimed)

The video claims payments can be reduced by about 89% (sometimes slightly less).

Mechanism described: Monotributo includes multiple components:

  • Monotributo tax
  • Pension contributions
  • Social security payment

Strategy: eliminate the last two (avoid paying social security/pension contributions again) and pay mainly the Monotributo tax component.

Category A example (numbers as stated):

  • Monotributo Category A total: ~42,000 ARS
  • Social security portion: ~22,000 ARS
  • Result claimed: could pay <5,000 ARS for Category A by removing social security + pension components.

Who benefits (as described):

  • People with multiple employment where social security/pension is already deducted elsewhere:
    • Employees receiving salary (deductions from paycheck)
    • Retirees (covered through pension)
  • Professionals with mandatory provincial pension funds mentioned:
    • lawyers, accountants, doctors
    • plus: investors in certain provinces (could benefit)

Mistake #5 (Fix): Claiming ARCA refunds of perceptions (“perceptions”)

Core idea:

  • If you pay with the ARCA card in dollars for abroad/streaming (e.g., Netflix, Spotify), there is a 30% surcharge that may be refundable.
  • Example given:
    • Paid $100 for Netflix during the year → allegedly should have paid $70 → ARCA should refund the withheld $30.

Step-by-step process (as described)

  1. Ensure CBU is declared (ties to Mistake #1).
  2. In ARCA, search “debol” → select “return of perceptions” (spelling/accent note mentioned).
  3. Enter the period using year and month in the correct format (example uses 2025 02 for Feb 2025; emphasizes year/month, not “01/2025”).
  4. Press Consult.
  5. If results appear as multiple lines that cancel out, skip lines that net to zero.
  6. Find an entry with an odd number amount, described as the one indicating ARCA has to pay you.
  7. Click Submit (top right), then Yes after reviewing.
  8. Wait for ARCA verification and payment after some time.

Timeline mentioned

  • Requests can be made at the end of each year.
  • Example: in 2026, you can’t request “from this year” yet; requests are available starting Jan 1 of the next year.
  • Previous years:
    • The subtitles mention attempting for 2024, 2023, and that people did it up to 4 years ago.

Key instruments / entities explicitly mentioned

  • CBU (bank account key)
  • ARCA / AFIP (tax administration platform context)
  • Monotributo
  • Personal Assets tax
  • Income Tax
  • CDAs / CDRs / CDBAs/CDRs/CDAs (as written in the subtitle abbreviations)
  • Fixed-term deposits (“depositos a plazo fijo”)
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Foreign shares
  • Real estate
  • Netflix, Spotify (refund-perceptions examples)
  • Example company mentioned: Coca-Cola (context: Argentine instrument referenced alongside foreign-broker activity)

Presenters / sources (as stated)

  • The subtitles reference the speaker, but the name is not captured clearly in the provided text.
  • Mentions “my accountant” / the accountant’s explanation, but no named source is provided.

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